Transient Non-Community · PWSID PA7010895

Jd & Sons

Serves 100 peopleGroundwaterOwner: PrivateOrrtanna, Pennsylvania
Nothing open that measures the water, but 1 open testing or paperwork violation.

A missed test is not evidence of bad water. It also is not evidence of good water: for that period nobody checked.

On record since 2015: 13 violations. 1 treatment lapse · 9 missed or late tests · 3 notices or reports. Most recent began 2025-05-26.

None of them is a measurement of contaminated water.

For this year's test results, ask the utility for its annual Consumer Confidence Report. Every community system must publish one.

0Over the limit
1Treatment lapse
9Missed or late test1 open
3Notice or report

More violations on record than 59% of active water systems in Pennsylvania. Small systems with no staff chemist often rack up missed-test violations; big utilities rarely do.

The record, year by year

200520102015 · Missed or late test: 32015 · Missed or late test: 32015 · Missed or late test: 320152016 · Missed or late test: 22016 · Missed or late test: 22016 · Notice or report: 12017 · Missed or late test: 32017 · Missed or late test: 32017 · Missed or late test: 320202024 · Treatment lapse: 12024 · Notice or report: 22024 · Notice or report: 22025 · Missed or late test: 12025
One square = one violation, by the year it began. Empty columns are years with nothing on EPA's record.
8% treatment lapse · 169% missed or late test · 923% notice or report · 3

Across Pennsylvania, 71% of violations are missed or late tests and 2% are water over a limit.

Open now (1)

  1. 2025-05-26E. ColiMonitoring, Source Water (GWR)Open

Every violation on record

  1. 2025-05-26E. ColiMonitoring, Source Water (GWR)Open
  2. 2024-07-29Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance
  3. 2024-06-18Revised Total Coliform RuleRPTBack in compliance
  4. 2024-06-18Revised Total Coliform RuleTTBack in compliance
  5. 2017-02-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  6. 2017-01-01NitriteMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  7. 2017-01-01NitrateMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  8. 2016-04-01Revised Total Coliform RuleOtherBack in compliance
  9. 2016-01-01NitriteMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  10. 2016-01-01NitrateMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  11. 2015-10-01Coliform (TCR)Monitoring, Routine Major (TCR)Back in compliance
  12. 2015-01-01NitriteMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  13. 2015-01-01NitrateMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance

System details

Population served100
Service connections1
Water sourceGroundwater
System typeTransient Non-Community
OwnerPrivate
StatusActive
CityOrrtanna
EPA ZIP on file17353

Areas served

  • Adams County

Reading this record

Jd & Sons is a transient non-community that draws from groundwater and serves about 100 people in Orrtanna, Pennsylvania. Everything above comes from the EPA's Safe Drinking Water Information System (SDWIS), where states report every violation by every public water system.

Four kinds of violation. Only one is a measurement of the water: over the limit means a test came back above a legal maximum (an MCL). A treatment lapse means a required protective step was not done, such as disinfection, filtration, fixing a defect an inspector found, or filing a lead-pipe inventory. A missed or late test means a required test was skipped or never reported. That is the most common kind, and the most misread: it does not mean the water was bad, and it does not mean the water was fine. Notices and reports covers public notices and the annual Consumer Confidence Report.

Status. “Back in compliance” means the state recorded a return to compliance. “Period ended” means the violation's compliance period is over but no return to compliance was ever filed, which is common in older records. EPA's federal copy lags state records by months, so call the utility for anything current.